10/07/17 19:07:28
和訳おねがいします
People write for two primary reasons: to be read and to make money. What an author writes is
based on his purpose: to entertain, to instruct, or to affect his readers. How he writes depends
upon his character, personality, zest, and capacity. How a person writes reflects what he
himself is.
The author who claims to write only for himself and to please himself accomplishes only that
in the end. He is the amateur who never becomes a professional. His need to write may be
therapeutic. Once he has put his torment and frustrations on paper, he can walk (angrily / sadly / happily)away
from writing and take up a more fitting trade or profession. Some authors who claim to write
only for themselves do not speak honestly, but are protecting themselves against possible failure.
Such a writer ― when he has finished his story or play ― begins to think about being
published and read.
What and how a person writes determine whether or not he is going to be published and if he is,
by whom. Every beginning writer dreams of finding an editor or publisher who will recognize
his genius, show him the way, and push or pull him toward his goal, publication. In the past
this happened, though more rarely than writers believe. Today’s editors and publishers cannot
afford to wait for a writer’s maturity. They would like to develop genius and subsidize its
growth, but publication costs, the small margin of profit, competition with other media, and the
unpredictability of public taste demand writers who are ready to be published today, writers who
know what to write and how to write it. This demand is responsible for the increasing number of
creative-writing classes in colleges and universities, writing clubs, conferences, and regional
creative writing institutes.